Starfish move without a brain by using tiny feet that react locally to pressure and weight during crawling across surfaces.
Starfish look so inconspicuous that is difficult to even imagine they can actively move. If it weren't for time-lapse recordings of this specimen, the average ...
Starfish, also known as sea stars, are equipped with an almost alien-like anatomy. Despite lacking a brain, blood, and ...
Starfish (aka sea stars) are master climbers. These many-armed invertebrates traverse vertical, horizontal, and even ...
On an extended research visit to a friend’s lab in Tokyo, marine biologists Amy Johnson and Olaf Ellers witnessed something they’d never seen before. The starfish in Tatsuo Motokawa’s lab weren’t ...
An optogenetic method for orchestrating the movement of starfish oocytes has been developed. A research team from MIT (MA, USA), the University of Munich (Germany) and the Whitehead Institute for ...